Qibya

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nameQibya
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typeMunicipality type C
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image_captionQibya
pushpin_mapPalestine
pushpin_map_captionLocation of Qibya within Palestine
coordinates
grid_namePalestine grid
grid_position151/153
subdivision_typeState
subdivision_nameState of Palestine
subdivision_type1Governorate
subdivision_name1Ramallah and al-Bireh
established_titleFounded
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government_typeMunicipality
leader_titleHead of Municipality
leader_nameFahmi Makhtub
unit_prefdunam
area_total_km216.5
area_total_dunam16485
population_footnotes
population_total6090
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| name = Qibya | translit_lang1 = Arabic | translit_lang1_type = Arabic | translit_lang1_info = قبية | type = Municipality type C | image_skyline = Qibya1640.JPG | image_caption = Qibya | pushpin_map = Palestine | pushpin_map_caption = Location of Qibya within Palestine | image_map = | map_caption = | coordinates = | grid_name = Palestine grid | grid_position = 151/153 | subdivision_type = State | subdivision_name = State of Palestine | subdivision_type1 = Governorate | subdivision_name1 = Ramallah and al-Bireh | established_title = Founded | established_date = | government_footnotes = tags -- | government_type = Municipality | leader_title = Head of Municipality | leader_name = Fahmi Makhtub | unit_pref = dunam | area_footnotes = | area_total_km2 = 16.5 | area_total_dunam = 16485 | elevation_footnotes = | elevation_m = | elevation_min_m = | elevation_max_m = | population_footnotes = | population_total = 6090 | population_as_of = 2017 | population_note = | population_density_km2 = auto | blank_name_sec1 = Name meaning | blank_info_sec1 = Domed | website = | footnotes = Qibya () is a Palestinian village in the West Bank, located 30 km northwest of Ramallah and exactly north of the large Israeli city of Modi'in. It is part of the Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate, and according to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, it had a population of approximately 6,090 in 2017.

The village is known for being the site of the 1953 Qibya massacre.

Etymology

The name Qibyā is Aramaic, and means “The cistern”.

Location

Qibya is located 19.9 km (horizontally) northwest of Ramallah. It is bordered by Ni'lin to the east, Shuqba to the north, the Green line to the west, and Budrus and Ni'lin to the south.

History

A Bar Kokhba Revolt coin dated to between 134 and 136 was found in a Karst cave near this village, suggesting that Jews who rebelled against the Roman Empire had found refuge in this cave. Potsherds from the Roman/Byzantine, Byzantine Empire, Mamluk and early Ottoman period have been found in the village.

A building, possibly dating to the Crusader era have been found here.

Ottoman period

Qibya, like the rest of Palestine, was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire in 1517, and in the census of 1596, the village was located in the Nahiya of Ramla of the Liwa of Gaza. It had an entirely Muslim population of 29 households. They paid a fixed tax rate of 25% on wheat, barley, summer crops, olives, fruit trees, lintels, goats and/or beehives, in addition of taxes for a press for olives or grapes; a total of 6,000 akçe.

According to Marom, in the 18th or early 19th centuries, residents of Qibya affiliated with the Yamani camp during the Qays and Yaman conflicts, alongside residents of Dayr Tarif and part of the residents of Bayt Nabala. They fought several skirmishes against rivals from Deir Abu Mash'al and Jayyous.

In 1882, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine described the village (then named Kibbiah), as "a very small hamlet with olive-trees, on high ground".

British Mandate period

In the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, the village, (named Kibbia), had a population of 694 inhabitants, all Muslims. In the 1931 census the population of Qibya was 909, still all Muslim, in 204 inhabited houses.

In the 1945 statistics, the population of Qibya was 1,250, all Muslims, who owned 16,504 dunams of land according to an official land and population survey. 4,788 dunams were used for cereals, while 32 dunams were built-up (urban) land.

File:Qibya 1944.jpg|Qibya 1944 1:20,000 File:Deir Abu Mash'al 1945.jpg|Qibya 1945 1:250,000

Jordanian era

In the wake of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, and after the 1949 Armistice Agreements, Qibya came under Jordanian rule.

Massacre

Main article: Qibya massacre

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In October 1953 Qibya was the target of an Israeli raid known as the Qibya massacre by Unit 101 commanded by a young Ariel Sharon which resulted in the death of 67 or 69 unarmed civilians and large-scale destruction of the village. On October 18, 1953, the U.S. State Department issued a bulletin expressing its "deepest sympathy for the families of those who lost their lives" in Qibya as well as the conviction that those responsible "should be brought to account and that effective measures should be taken to prevent such incidents in the future." The United States temporarily suspended economic aid to Israel.

The Jordanian census of 1961 found 1,635 inhabitants in Qibya.

Post-1967

Since the Six-Day War in 1967, Qibya has been under Israeli occupation.

After the 1995 accords, 21.5% of Qibya land was classified as Area B, the remaining 78.5% as Area C. Israel has confiscated land from Qibya in order to construct the Israeli West Bank barrier.

Qibya received media coverage again in the run-up to the 2001 Israeli general election when it was correctly forecast that Sharon would become the next Israeli Prime Minister.

References

Bibliography

References

  1. (February 2018). "Preliminary Results of the Population, Housing and Establishments Census, 2017". [[State of Palestine]].
  2. Palmer, 1881, p. [https://archive.org/stream/surveyofwesternp00conduoft#page/237/mode/1up 237]
  3. Marom, Roy. (2023). "Early-Ottoman Palestinian Toponymy: A Linguistic Analysis of the (Micro-)Toponyms in Haseki Sultan’s Endowment Deed (1552)". Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins.
  4. [https://web.archive.org/web/20170921194006/http://vprofile.arij.org/ramallah/pdfs/vprofile/Qibya_vp_en.pdf Qibya Village Profile], ARIJ, p. 4
  5. [https://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-5249941,00.html A Rare Bar Kochva Coin Was Discovered North to Modi'in]
  6. Finkelstein et al, 1997, p. 174
  7. Pringle, 1997, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=-_NbE5obqRMC&pg=PA115 115]
  8. Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 153
  9. Marom, Roy. (2022-11-01). "Jindās: A History of Lydda's Rural Hinterland in the 15th to the 20th Centuries CE". Lod, Lydda, Diospolis.
  10. Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. [https://archive.org/stream/surveyofwesternp02conduoft#page/297/mode/1up 297]
  11. Barron, 1923, Table VII, Sub-district of Ramleh, p. [https://archive.org/stream/PalestineCensus1922/Palestine%20Census%20%281922%29#page/n24/mode/1up 22]
  12. Mills, 1932, p. [https://archive.org/details/CensusOfPalestine1931.PopulationOfVillagesTownsAndAdministrativeAreas 22]
  13. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. [http://users.cecs.anu.edu.au/~bdm/yabber/census/VSpages/VS1945_p30.jpg 30]
  14. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. ''Village Statistics, April, 1945.'' Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. [http://www.palestineremembered.com/download/VillageStatistics/Table%20I/al-Ramla/Page-068.jpg 68]
  15. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. ''Village Statistics, April, 1945.'' Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. [http://www.palestineremembered.com/download/VillageStatistics/Table%20II/al-Ramla/Page-116.jpg 116]
  16. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. ''Village Statistics, April, 1945.'' Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. [http://www.palestineremembered.com/download/VillageStatistics/Table%20III/al-Ramla/Page-166.jpg 166]
  17. [http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/mid009.asp The Department of State issued a statement] on Oct. 18, 1953 (Department of State Bulletin, Oct. 26, 1953, p. 552).
  18. Government of Jordan, Department of Statistics, 1964, p. [http://users.cecs.anu.edu.au/~bdm/yabber/census/JordanCensusPages/JordanCensus1961-p24.pdf 24]
  19. [https://web.archive.org/web/20170921194006/http://vprofile.arij.org/ramallah/pdfs/vprofile/Qibya_vp_en.pdf Qibya Village Profile], ARIJ, pp. 16-18
  20. [https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/feb/04/israel Guardian] From butcher to 'Lion' to Prime Minister of Israel by Jason Burke 4 February 2001

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